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beflowered

American  
[bih-flou-erd] / bɪˈflaʊ ərd /

adjective

  1. adorned or decorated with flowers.


Etymology

Origin of beflowered

First recorded in 1620–30; be- + flower + -ed 2

Example Sentences

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I’d finally broken the ice because I wanted to review Merve Emre’s just-published “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” and it seemed sensible to first approach Woolf’s book straight on rather than as a beflowered monument.

From Washington Post Sep. 14, 2021

With that she flounced into a car and was off to her beflowered presidential suite at the Hotel Gloria.

From Time Magazine Archive

There wasn’t an English grave in Ploegsteert Wood that was better tended or more heavily beflowered than these mounds of fallen Germans.—Mr.

From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)

In recalling bright colouring like this, one is reminded of Chaucer and his unfailing delight in gay colours, which he constantly brings before us in describing garden, woodland, or beflowered gown.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various

The whole story was to the public eye very much covered over and beflowered like the wall of a park.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

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